HOT OFF THE PRESS: The inside dope on how the 2003 Iraq War started or WHY it was started is because Saddam Hussein was pissed off at the other Arab nations for not coming to his support when Bush 41 invaded Iraq in 1991. You know that Saddam accused Kuwait of slant drilling under Iraqi territory for oil. He was so mad and relations with these other Arab nations got worse and worse that he threatened to bankrupt them all by putting oil on the market at ten dollars a barrel. It was in response to this financial "emergency" that President Bush knew for sure that Saddam Hussein had to be removed.
They held one of these “dinners” in Iowa for “normal” republicans and the audience did not respond to all the “red meat” cues. Carley Fiurina mentioned how “hormones” shouldn’t preclude people from the Presidency. Ben Carson talked about surgery being performed on an unborn fetus. And Scott Walker talked about how as a little boy he did a fund raising campaign to put a flag in the town square. Now they are doing a critique of Scott Walker in general and saying that Scott Walker is a highly unreliable flip-flopper and even worse on foreign policy because he’s even more poorly informed than other ill informed Republicans. One of Walker’s favorite Presidential decisions of all time is President Reagan’s decision to fire the air traffic controllers. Walker says he isn’t after the private unions but only public unions, and of course the first thing he does after that is to get a right to work law passed in Wisconsin. I just got most of a whole cigarette from Mario.
Most people have
neither the time nor the patience nor lack of sanity to follow politics at this
point a year and a half before the elections.
Jeb Bush is ‘opting out of the Iowa straw poll” as though you could “opt
out” of a poll. (Can you?) Jeb Bush really bobbled the ball taking five
attempts to get the answer “right” of whether he would have gotten us into war
in Iraq in 2003. Now there is a theory
of “He had a scripted answer to a different question- - and just jumped the gun”,
which raises the question if you’re at a diplomatic meeting on some
international issue, do you “listen to the remarks and questions correctly” of
the other diplomats to properly respond to them? Hillary is being put under attack by
Republicans on her Iraq War vote but it’s all just a ploy to drive liberals
away from supporting Hillary for President in some vain hope that she won’t be
the nominee because if she is the nominee these right wingers know she’ll
win. It is interesting is how rich the
Clintons have become making 15 million or something after they were “broke” at
the end of their Presidency. Since there
are so many political speeches flooding the air waves I have no idea why
someone would pay massive amounts of money to hear Bill Clinton deliver one
speech. I mean- really! That just doesn’t make sense.
I watched the Mc Laughlin group. The first segment was on the Trans Pacific
Trade agreement. The second segment was
on this NATO type agreement that six Arab states want to contract with America,
where America does the lion’s share of the defense. Pat Buchannon was at one extreme and Mort
Zuckerman was at the other extreme. In other words, Mort takes the same line that all nations Sunni and Arab are our boosum buddies and we should now trust and support them inplicitly. I'm not into this strange line of thinking that a peace treaty with Iran will "trigger an arms race throughout the Mideast and increase the liklyhood of war". This verges on Orwellian thinking. Keep in mind that these so called trusted allies Shawn is so in love with- - are sponsors of some of the most extreme laws against women and some of the most extreme terrorism the world has known. If I were President I would have just cancled this conference after Arabia and these others snubbed me by not sending their top leaders to it. But that's me. The third segment was one on China's expansion in the south China sea to all of these islands claimed by various nations including the Philipines, whom we are allies with. They are artificial in nature - - and almost used as an excuse for China to expand their waters far into what were formerly International Waters.
The Rude Pundit was late today because the
Sprint lines were down. I did not post
any blogs either Saturday or Sunday. I’m
not crazy about the idea of rehashing the same old stories that have already
been covered endlessly by the press. If
I bore myself, I most certainly don’t want to bore my readers. We had Raison Bran for breakfast. John poured milk from the bottle. With Augustine’s help service was quicker
today. We had three triangle waffles
and a piece of bacon. I also got Owen’s
bacon. Connie gave me another triangle
making two whole squares. Paul gave me
his plate of three more triangle cuts, for a total of 3 ½ waffles altogether. I grew drowsy this morning after eight and
suddenly the internet went out. I took
the black cord and plugged it back on.
The LA Clippers were
defeated by the Houston Rockets in Houston today in a game seven they were
actually decent enough to televise on free TV.
The Rockets were ahead 105 to 90 or something- - and at times were ahead
twenty points. This game hadn’t yet
ended by ten after three. The Anaheim
Ducks were also playing the Chicago Blackhawks and beat them decisively four to
one. At one point it was 2 to 1 Ducks
over Blackhawks. This is game one of
round three on NBC. Of course ABC has
been blacking out round 3 in NBA for years now.
So next week it won’t matter how long we stay at Mom’s. I called Mom after the game was done and we
talked a while but it was our shortest call of the past several. Mom confirmed that intellectually she just
doesn’t understand anything about Christianity or how we could “meet a historical
figure like Jesus in Heaven or of what relevance that would be”. She spoke of “having other commitments” to
dodge a meeting with some lady. I made a
pitch for Mom to begin taking in more salt because she’s so often complained of
going to the bathroom at night. I told
her consuming more salt helped me with that problem. I also suggested that if she is getting too
much Vitamin D, it’s all the more important to dilute the vitamins in her cells
by drinking as much water as possible. I
didn’t quite say it, but drinking water can help with a headache, particularly
if you’re coming off an excessive alcohol binge. I also made a pitch for carrot-enoids and
Aztezanten in particular, to help give her more energy. I also expressed surprise that Mom wasn’t
even ON the methylated B vitamin program.
All of my previous remarks about “You’ll feel a whole lot better in a
few days to a week” were based on that premise.
When
you think of all the physical ailments people of our age have, it’s only a
wonder that Ted Cruz or someone doesn’t come up with a revived doctrine of
“survival of the fittest”. After all he
can argue that they didn’t have any government health care at all in Jesus’ day
and “Jesus expected that more people would die a natural death when God
intended them to go”. They could make a
case that there are just “too many minorities and gays and elderly and infirm
and poor people now” as though suggestive of some kind of passive or active
genocide campaign. It sounds crazy to
our ears now, but a lot of what passes for normal now would have sounded
absolutely nuts forty years ago.
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